since when
From the ancestors of the ancestors.
A desire that led to a record, not a memory.
Being a Grand Duchess, which is said to be one of the three most powerful empires, is only a shoddy façade.
Admiral Nambu, who possesses a military force that is unmatched by anyone on the sea, not only for his mighty naval power, but also for his physical strength.
Count and Marquis-level monsters are lined up, and even duke-level monsters are said to come down once every few decades.
Two of the three grand dukes are called the guardian deity of the sea and the shield of the north, but the Kruger family is only called a leech that sucks the blood of others to make a profit, a being that only shines gold.
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In the end, he couldn’t stand it and had to show off his strength against the continent.
Probably the southern admiral and the northern grand duke, the two of them could make the continent unimaginably sick and put the most people in pain.
It was also true that even if it ruined the economy and drove many people to hell, if only one powerful superman came in, they would have no choice but to kneel in the end.
Although strong against the weak, there was no equal in the Kruger family that could stop the absolute strong.
‘In the end, at the end of the day, only the mighty power you have is everything.’
Wouldn’t it be because the three grand dukes were noticing each other because there was Ganax in the imperial family?
Emperor’s Shadow, Emperor’s Shield.
If he had made conquest, not defense, his wish, the empire would have been called the continent itself, not an empire.
So it was. A plan prepared from the ancestors’ ancestors. After collecting gold and operating credits to dominate the overall logistics flow and economy, they waited and waited while looking for money and information obtained based on the wide-spread route like a spider’s web.
In order to avoid the eyes and ears of the imperial family, she poured a lot of money and a lot of time with extreme caution, and with that obsession to find out beyond the generations.
Like the rumored statue of a saint with closed eyes, something that will give you the strength to go beyond your traits without the cost of causality that is forcibly granted.
‘And I finally figured it out. An aggregate of powerful attributes and mana. Where it is and how to absorb it.’
If he hadn’t cared about information leaking into the imperial family, he would have known in just a few years.
But where did you find out even now? The essence of fire obtained at the end of twists and turns.
It was a pulsating beauty.
A manifestation of flame that burns the eyes of ordinary people just by looking at it.
A blazing starlight, a jewel entwined with all kinds of red.
And what appears to be something living crouched down.
An aggregate of mighty mana and flame. Literally the essence of flame.
‘A living heart.’
Like the great labyrinth in the labyrinthine city of Labyrinth, Caiman thought of it the moment he retrieved it from the deepest part of the dungeon, filled with numerous traps, monsters, and disgusting things.
It’s a chance to finally put your hand on the hand that holds and shakes the continent.
‘But it’s much stronger than I thought.’
However, if there was a slight mistake, it was that the power of the essence of fire was far greater than dozens of wizards had estimated.
It was literally the same as drinking a poisoned chalice.
If you can digest this, infinite glory will shine, but if you fail, not a single handful of Caiman will be left in the world and burned.
If there is no one to control the scare that started from it, it will burn even the magic barrier surrounded by this place and crawl to the continent.
More than the disaster or the suffering that could result from it, Caiman didn’t want to ruin the aspirations that had been passed on from his ancestors to his ancestors.
That’s why I was taming the essence of fire here, leaving my family affairs and even my dearest daughter outside.
“under.”
Red mana burned the air with each breath.
“How did that go?”
“The shadows are pursuing day and night.”
Platinum hair and cold, sunken eyes that looked like they would smear snow powder if you touched them.
A man who is not too cool to look at.
Every time Caiman moved, red flames of mana floated around him like a halo.
Can a person who sees it for the first time really guess that small things like those grains of sand are mana with elemental power compressed enough to be visible to the naked eye?
The moment that tiny grain touches a person’s body, a fire of mana that cannot be quenched with water will ignite.
Caiman’s body, which had swallowed the essence with such a powerful fire attribute, was a mana bomb itself that could explode at any moment.
As soon as Caiman recognized that it was impossible to neutralize and completely absorb it, since he was born as a human, Caiman absorbed the opposite attribute and tried to stabilize it by tug-of-war inside his body.
However, the moment the Holy Protestants stole the storm beads, Caiman concentrated all his energy on suppressing the mana of the fire that was boiling every day, and was unable to do anything, so his anger pierced the sky.
“I guess they haven’t stole it where they want yet.”
“yes. They must have taken it from us for a purpose, so we are chasing it day and night to make sure we don’t use it, so we can’t easily meet anyone.”
Caiman tapped the handle of the chair with his fingertips. The metal chair enchanted with the fire attribute to withstand his seething mana became red hot and sparks flew whenever he tapped it with his fingertips.
“If I can’t hold it in my hands right now, others should too.”
“They are reduced in number to eight now, and we are tracking them in shifts every hour, so they will be caught someday.”
Caiman’s eyes narrowed coldly at the words of his subordinate.
chase and chase Until they vomit blood and collapse.
So that I can’t pass it on to anyone, and if I die while holding on to the orb of the storm, I can take it out of his hand.
Everyone bowed their heads at Caiman’s command.
* * *
“Oh, why are you here so late?”
“You jumped out first.”
Stepping on the pebble beach, Rachel grumbles and approaches. He took a bite of a stone apple the size of a child’s fist, knowing where he got it.
“Ah tue. Write, write.”
After chewing it a few times, I turned my head to see if I could eat it even with Rachel’s mouth, spit it out, and reached out my hand.
I looked at that dignified hand and silently opened the subspace and handed an apple to Rachel, while I turned it to Kane, Luna, and Leaf one by one, and I took a bite and looked around the island.
“I think I can feel it a little when I’m on the island.”
―It’s a flow that you wouldn’t even notice if you weren’t aware of it.
Well, it’s me, but I don’t feel anything. My party should be different.
Kane opened his mouth as I smiled slowly and glanced at the guide who had crossed over in the boat.
“Is it over there?”
“Yes, yes. you’re right. If you go there, there is a hidden road, and if you go further, you will come to a cliff.”
“I don’t think we need any more guidance.”
“Do you want to bet who will find it first?”
After Kane said as if he understood, he strode away. Rachel also quickly followed with a bouncy gait.
Well, what a nice place.
After I waited and motioned for him to rest, I followed Kane with Luna and Leaf.
“The road is a bit rough.”
“I guess it’s because it’s on the way to the cliff.”
―I will hold your hand. manager.
I gently pushed Leaf’s hand out toward me.
Of course, since Leaf is a golem, I know that she is stronger than most people, doesn’t get tired easily, and likes to serve me as the manager.
‘Still, both legs are strong.’
Really, if we just pick up our healer this time, we should get movement-related artifacts, really.
I thought about it a few times, but there was always a person, place, or thing that I wanted subtly first.
However, the party members are gradually getting stronger, so I can’t delay any longer if I want to step in parallel.
I made a promise and breathlessly walked the side road going up the cliff, but at some point my vision brightened.
An open space where the narrow road and the trees blocking the way disappear instantly.
Climbing to the top of the highest cliff, you can see the rolling sea and the water scales scattering light. It was now fully awake and dazzling under the brilliant sun.
“This nice scenery, remember it now.”
It’ll be destroyed in 10 minutes.
Everyone seriously looks at the sea at the joke I make with a smile, then glances at the stake and the rope connected to it, as if the guide had made it.
Originally, he was going to grab that rope and go down the cliff to enter the crevice cave in the middle.
“Kane.”
I proudly called Kaneemon, and Kane shook his head once and carried me like a burden.
“Brother, I can serve you more safely… … .”
-So do i.
“Not me.”
sorry. I’m a young adult with a new body but a young mind, so it’s a little uncomfortable for me to be hugged by children younger than me.
Rachel, of course, is an exception. It’s because Rachel has such bad faith that she just seems to throw me away.
After thinking about something else without looking at reality for a while, my feet hit the hard floor before I knew it. A crevice entrance to a narrow cave.
Even though I was standing right in front of it, the stench that came from the inside with the damp wind reached my nose.
“Hmm. Would you like a handkerchief?”
“Oh, how bad? I am familiar with the smell of blood, but I am not very familiar with the smell of rotten blood.”
―The road continues straight ahead, but the light coming in from the entrance is seen as the end.
“I’d rather use something other than a handkerchief, Bocchan.”
When Luna glanced at Kane, it seemed that Kane took a step ahead and created a mana curtain around his body.
I lowered my hand to cover my nose and mouth at the stench that suddenly disappeared, and Luna next to me said, ‘Do this right… ‘ Seeing him muttering, I think I need to use mana in detail.
All-around Kane.
Supplying 1 Cane to 1 Household on the Continent… no trouble if you do
‘I’m a b*tch with that personality.’
For a while, I had a scary thought. I opened the subspace and took out the codex after a long time.
“Light.”
It’s quite bright when it’s a little ahead of Kane. Cain’s shadow stretched across the cave’s walls.
“bug.”
“Are you already flying around like this?”
Luna strokes my clothes a few times and Leaf waves his hand.
Rachel moved her fist quickly and something fell to the floor.
I took out the Aegis, touched the settings a little, set it in the form of slightly radiating very weak electrical mana around it, and then floated it in the air, and I started hearing a crackling sound in the middle.
For me, who knew what was inside, it was a bit repulsive to touch those flying insects.
Looking around, it was initially a crevice cave formed by a natural crack in the cliff, but later, as if the space was expanded, traces of scratches or splits and untouched parts were mixed here and there.
Perhaps because of that, the aisle gradually widened the further you went inside than the first entrance, and later on.
“… It’s too much.”
―What kind of malice do you have to have?
“They are crazy.”
And from the side, I heard a very low, grinding sound, as if my teeth were clenched together.
On the wall of the common room, which looked like a decent-sized warehouse, there was a symbol of the Church of Evil painted in blood, and underneath it were scattered things that had begun to rot.
It is impossible to estimate how many people would have been sacrificed if it had not been for the severed or barely hanging heads.
Splitting, crushing, crushing, tearing, burning, soaking in water.
At a glance, this is enough, so I wonder if I could do something more.
No one even questioned why he was doing this.
Because this is such a world.
Such an act is not an act that satisfies a simple impulse or a delusion in the brain, but it is definitely something. Because that’s where it comes back in some way.
And how much money did the evil denominations, who are still doing such things on all continents, give to their gods?
“remember. The mana here.”
Either us or the church. Because they will meet until the moment one side disappears.